Joanna, 52, and Julie, 49, met on a school exchange trip in 1989, then lost touch. An early email directory brought them back together and led to some of the best times of their lives
‘We have a similar sense of humour and she made me laugh a lot’ … Jo and Julie in Greece in June this year.‘We have a similar sense of humour and she made me laugh a lot’ … Jo and Julie in Greece in June this year.
Julie now says that she was being “a brat”. “I’m an only child and I wasn’t used to sharing a bathroom,” she says. She thought Joanna seemed “cool and reserved”, and says the cultural barrier seemed huge in her teens. “I’d never met anyone from a different country before.” “When she emailed me, I told her all about my wild exploits being a rocker in college. I wanted to shock her with my anecdotes,” Julie laughs. They both got married and both had two children, and they shared pictures and stories about their experiences through emails and phone calls.
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